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Clinical and molecular immune characterization of ERBB2 in glioma

  • Int Immunopharmacol. 2021 May;94:107499. doi: 10.1016/j.intimp.2021.107499.
Jie Mei 1 Tiejun Wang 2 Rui Xu 3 Daozhen Chen 4 Yan Zhang 5
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Oncology, Wuxi Maternal and Child Health Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital to Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi 214023, China; Wuxi College of Clinical Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi 214023, China.
  • 2 Department of Oncology, Wuxi Maternal and Child Health Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital to Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi 214023, China.
  • 3 Wuxi College of Clinical Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi 214023, China. Electronic address: [email protected].
  • 4 Department of Oncology, Wuxi Maternal and Child Health Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital to Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi 214023, China. Electronic address: [email protected].
  • 5 Department of Oncology, Wuxi Maternal and Child Health Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital to Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi 214023, China. Electronic address: [email protected].
Abstract

ERBB2 is a well-studied oncogene that promotes progression of multiple cancers, especially in breast Cancer. However, the expression status of ERBB2, the values of ERBB2 on prognosis, and its molecular characterization in glioma have not been well examined. We explored the expression of ERBB2 and its clinical and molecular immune characterization in human glioma samples using the extracted genetic and clinical data from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and the Chinese Glioma Genome Atlas (CGGA) databases. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) performed on the tissue microarray slide was used to validate the expression and clinical and prognostic values of ERBB2 in glioma. Higher ERBB2 expression was found in patients with higher grades gliomas than in patients with lower grades gliomas. Besides, patients with higher ERBB2 expression showed poor prognosis. The IHC and clinical data next validated the expression pattern and prognostic value of ERBB2 in glioma. Further analysis showed that there was a strong positive correlation between ERBB2 and common immune checkpoints as well as immune markers of various immune cells in both TCGA and CGGA databases, and the IHC data further validated the positive correlation between ERBB2 and PD-L1 expression. Besides, analysis of ERBB2-related immune genes and signatures showed the significant role of ERBB2 in mediating tumor immune response in glioma. To sum up, our findings summarize the expression pattern and clinical characteristics of ERBB2 in glioma, which may be useful for expanding our understanding of the critical role of ERBB2 in antitumor therapy in glioma.

Keywords

ERBB2; Glioma; Immune response; Prognosis.

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